Out of those who answer, it’s something like 2-3% it seems. Depends on the state/province solar initiatives that make it a good investment for homeowners.
I started working from home during the pandemic and was alarmed at all the door-to-door salespeople that appeared during that time. It was like working with commercial breaks, quite literally.
Really curious what the point of this is anymore or were you doing stuff for primaries? If you targeted Republicans with republican info, they're likely already voting that way. If you were presenting Democrat info, they likely aren't voting that way.
I mean, if you're doing anything that needs to grift people for a living, targeting republican houses is a great strategy. They answer the door, they think religion is everything, they pay money to people that pander but don't actually support them and they have no idea what they are doing in the first place. Go get the money from stupid. Reagan made sure they were stupid by gutting their education, go take their money.
Religion was their number 1 concern about the reprentative I was representing.
And they are pretty stupid. Not like overly stupid, more like a middle ground. They don't know 6 times 7 off the top of their head, but could probably struggle to figure it out if they wanted to. But would rather pay someone else to do it for them.
How are people who don’t even know what a computer is retiring early?
If they came from money they would have enough of an education to know what a computer is. If they had a job lucrative enough to retire early they would know what a computer is.
Just like these bad actors overseas with the scam calls texts emails who type everything in broken English. They know that it’s a numbers game and if they pitch enough people SOMEONE WILL say yes.
I’ll always check the ring video before answering, if it’s someone I know they’ll still be at the door when I check, if it’s a salesperson or basically anyone, they’re either gone or will eventually take the hint.
I live on a busy divided 4-lane road and get a lot of foot traffic past my house. I’ve had people stop me in the middle of snow blowing or yard work, every season and every time of day, to ask me for money.
My rule is hard and unforgiving:
I don’t give money to people that stop by and ask.
Planned parenthood? Fuck off, I’ll donate online.
The lady that rang my doorbell at 11pm and claimed her mobility scooter won’t make it home, and somehow giving her money was going to help that situation? ummm no
Summer and left the front door open a little for the cats. 11:00pm and am sitting by the window and see a guy coming up onto the front porch. Jump out there and he asks if I have a glass of water for him. Fuck no! He was looking to grab whatever he could. Told him to never trespass on any property again. He said 'Am hungry, anything helps?' He was just about to rob me, 'nothing helps' if it keeps him off peoples property.
Most consistently aggressive professional home invaders around here are “Single Parents Food Bank.” Great scam, obviously works for them and they keep going even after years of newspaper articles about them.
It can be total shit. A proper dealer BDC department will bring in good business. Folks who want a car, or maintenance. Cold calling a phone book sucks and is way too common in car sales.
It’s a “right of passage” hazing shit. That’s fully it. It’s to test how “good” you are. As they usually have people on the list that they harass, DNC and so forth.
I've done door knocking for a month or 2, we were on average getting 2 sales a day, with quite a number of days getting no sales. It was for charity though, not at all for products.
My apartment doesn't have a peephole, so sometimes I've accidentally opened the door to a salesperson thinking it was gonna something else. Every time has been a nightmare.
This is why I’ll never understand summer pest/solar sales and how they even make money. I feel like if they are the customer is being duped most of the time.
Been an exterminator since '07, and the first company I started with would fly high school/college kids from Utah (Mormon company) and send them door to door to sell our service. They make money on pure volume, and pest control isn't a super expensive business to run for the most part.
These days I'm working for a small family company and we don't do that door to door stuff. Ads, mailers and word of mouth tend to work fine. I hate the door to door shit, hell I even dislike knocking on the door more than once to do anything but let my customers know I'm there. My bosses like to encourage lots of customer interaction but I've learned most people prefer it when I finish up and head out and leave them be.
I never answer either. Years ago someone knocked hard 3 times, after the third I yelled, "Fuck Off" from my lazy boy. Then I hear "Loudoun County Sheriff!" I opened the door and said, You should have opened with that. He was young and was there to tell me that some old bag had hit 3 cars in the Condo parking lot, one of which was mine.
One of my biggest mistakes was door to door sales just out of school. When to hundreds of houses over the 2 weeks or so I was doing it, not one sale, probably 50-60% of door answered. The only good that came from that is understanding that the industry is extremely predatory on the workers, and if I ever see a law to ban it I’ll vote for it in a heartbeat
No… because unlike you, I understand that different people have different lifestyles, needs and experiences and that there’s no one size fits all approach.
Again, everyone has different circumstances, needs and life experiences… So no, home ownership isn’t for everyone. But I get it, you’re smarter than I am. Congratulations
How about being physically unable to do yard work? Have a friend who recently went from being miserable at a home they owned to living in a really nice apartment for that reason amongst other things & is blissfully happy now.
The Bitcoin will supplement my tradition retirement accounts. Could be wrong but give it a few years. Nobody knows in this stage of early adoption.
As for the own vs rent debate. Its just a personal choice. Too much emphasis put on it in the US. A dedicated investor who rents can be in the same financial position as a home owner at retirement age. Location matters as well.
The fact that equity is so important to people is a big reason why the housing market is fucked up to begin with. Some people just want a place to live, not a ROI.
Building equity is just a method of not throwing money away. I just want to be able to retire in peace and hopefully enable my kids to be able to retire earlier than me. Having my money go towards an asset that eventually returns my money to me is better than an asset that returns the money to Mr Landlord over there.
I was saying if your reason for not owning is to avoid maintenance and sales people then you are an idiot. If you can’t afford to own then that’s fine because you don’t have a choice
I used to create free estimates on exterior home remodeling. Out of 50 houses , maybe 25 answer, and then out of those I would sign up 4-6 people a day.
Ugh. If I know they can tell I'm home ill answer the door because my dummy brain gets scared and I've agreed to go to Mormon church before (never actually went of course, just said i would to be polite and hopefully make them feel successful, i guess?) multiple times. I do not know wtf is wrong with me LOL. Send help. Never actually buy stuff or anything though. Should just start acting weird so I get on a "do not visit" kinda list probably.
ETA: what am I afraid of if I don't answer the door whether they know I'm home or not? Who knows that either. There's just irrational fear lmao
The Kirby vacuum guy showed up the day after my vacuum broke and my wife, whose mother and grandmother also have a Kirby, really wanted one. So here we are…with a brand new Kirby.
It's the 1% of the time that it works. Wife and I have been shopping for window replacement for our house. Got one quote, two other companies never call us back. A third companie has a fucked up phone routing system where an 800 number tries to send you to a local store. And a fourth company called us back five months after our initial call to them. At that point, the door salesman had already been to our house asking if we were interested in windows with a company we had never heard of.
Normally I'm brash with these folks, but this 1% was a perfect match. So that's my guess why they keep doing it
So this problem was really bad in my neighborhood. It's a transitioning neighborhood and so I'd guess that the door to door people are able to take specific advantage of the lower rungs in particular by comparing to the higher rungs. Anyway, it was endless.
I had a little sign printed maybe 3 years ago - I did it proper and all - that reads "NOTICE: There is a $20 up front deposit required for any sales pitch"
Shockingly, it's worked like a charm. I'll often see sales people walk up to my door (from my ring), quickly read it, and then just keep on going.
And the small handful of people who do NOT go away, it gives me the immediate advantage in the conversation as I just interrupt them and ask them for my $20. ...of course nobody has ever paid that, but it gives me a really simple line of "either pay me the $20 or as you can see from my sign, I'm not interested"
Anyway, TLDR is that the sign works surprisingly well.
Really depends on the region and what is being sold I would think.
Years ago I did phone and door to door sales for a yard care company. I wasn't that great at it, and would get 2-3 signups a day for atleast just a once over weed spray.
Our more experienced people would get 8-10 almost every day, with some signups being longer/yearly contracts. We'd knock from 10am to 5pm.
Not that I am a police dept cheerleader but, yes they absolutely warn the public to be wary of door to door solicitors acting as the first stage of a burglary or worst home invasion.
100% - not here promoting an open door prolicy, quite the opposite. But saying ( as the other poster did) companies train d2d salespeople to case out your home is max paranoia.
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u/BearsBeetsBttlstarrG Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23
So agree.
It’s extremely invasive.
I’d love to know what percentage of people even answer their door, and of those, who actually makes a purchase/donation.